Week 1: Key Aspects of Psychology: Psychodynamic

• Psychology
• Further Education (Key Stage 5)

Week 1: Introduction to key Aspects in Psychology

What is psychology?

This is a question.

Key Perspectives:

1. Psychodynamic

2. Humanistic

3. Cognitive

4. Behaviourist

5. Socio Cultural

6. Biological

7.  Evolutionary

Aims and Objectives

1. To be able to explain the assumptions of the psychodynamic approach.

2. To be able to explain Frued's theories of the mind.

Psychodynamic Approach

What do you know about Sigmund Freud?

Assumptions

 Fathered by Sigmund Freud, the psychodynamic approach Centres on:

1.  The Unconscious Mind.

2. Psychic Determinism: All behaviour has a cause or reason, even slips of the tongue (indicating little free will).

3. Instinctual Drives: Behaviour is motivated by instinctual drives—Eros (Life) and Thanatos (Death).

4, Constant Struggle: Different parts of the unconscious mind (id, ego, and superego) are in constant conflict.

5. Childhood Experiences: Our adult behaviour and feelings, including psychological problems, stem from childhood experiences (psychosexual stages).

Which Description fits ? 

The ID

The Ego

The super Ego

Seeks pleasure careless of the cost. instinctual desire

Balances Impulses with moral standards

Moral conscience and idealized self image.

EGO

ID

Super Ego

mental health issues

• Anxiety = When the ego doesn’t apply the reality principle effectively anxiety arises, the unconscious mind activates defence mechanisms. These mechanisms serve to either prevent unpleasant feelings or enhance positive experiences for the individual.

Childhood Issues

• Anger Issues / Poor Impulse Control = according to Freud, if someone grows up in a difficult environment (especially with a distant or rejecting mother), their ego—the part of their mind that balances desires—can become weak. When this happens, the ego struggles to control the id (which represents basic desires). Eventually, the id takes over, affecting the person’s overall mental state.

Psychosexual stages

The Id is present from birth.

The ego starts to develop during the first three years of a child's life.

The superego begins to develop around age 5.

How many sexual stages are there?

1. 6
2. 5
3. 4
4. 7

What is the name of the first psychosexual stage

1. Oral
2. Phallic
3. Anal
4. Genital

When a boy envies his fathers relationship with his mother it is called the ......

1. Electra Complex
2. Oedipus Complex
3. Penis Envy
4. Mother Fixation

In which psychosexual stage does the super ego develop?

1. Latency stage
2. Oral Stage
3. Genital Stage
4. Phallic Stage

Which of Frued's theories do you think have a good basis for understanding the mind?

Tripartite Personality theory i.e ID, EGO, SUPEREGO

Psycho-Sexual Stages.

Oedipus and Electra Complex

Task: 20 mins

In groups research one of the following Psychodynamic Theories:

1. Carl Jung
2. Alfred Adler
3. Erik Erikson
4. Object Relations Theory